di- 5 two (diploid: cells that contain two homologous sets of chromosomes)

fertil- 5 fruitful (fertilization: process of fusion of a haploid sperm and a haploid egg cell)

haplo- 5 single (haploid: cells that contain only one chromosome of each homologous pair)

homo- 5 like (homologous: like chromosomes that form a pair)

karyo- 5 nucleus (karyotype: a display of the chromosomes of a cell)

meio- 5 less (meiosis: a variation of cell division which yields daughter cells with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell)

soma- 5 body (somatic: body cells with 46 chromosomes in humans)

sporo- 5 a seed; -phyt 5 a plant (sporophyte: the multicellular diploid form in organisms undergoing alternation of generations that results from a union of gametes and that meiotically produces haploid spores that grow into the gametophyte generation)